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Italy bans lab-grown meat in nod to farmers (www.bbc.com)

submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 81 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Glad to see that right-wing idiots have found yet another topic to be outraged by. I am not saying that lab meat is the best of solutions but it seems incrementally better than what we have today.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Incrementally better? If they can get lab grown meat to scale it would be far more ecologically and ethically sound than farm raised meat.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 24 points 11 months ago

I say that because:

Eating plants directly is always going to be more efficient than eating lab grown meat which was fed on plants (because there are going to be waste products).
Eating plants directly is also healthier. Cancers, heart attacks, blood pressure issues... some very common health issues partly stem from humans in industrialized nations eating way too many animal products. Lab grown meat won't magically be healthier.
There's still a chance that lab-grown meat doesn't pan out because it's hard to scale up.
Lab grown meat is going to be high-tech for a while. This gives a lot of power to a few select companies. Lab-meat shoppers are going to be dependent on a few startups and eventually a few multinationals which have bought up the startups.
This also means prices are going to be dictated by this oligopoly of companies, most of which need to serve investors. Often that's going to be tech investors who expect a lot of growth leading to a lot of profit.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For anything that progresses civilisation, or even provides some preliminary indication — conservatism is, by definition, against that thing.

Conservatism exists to maintain social, economic, religious, and cultural power structures. It has no other purpose.